Amazing Grace
Hans Hofmann said
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
Today I am all about keeping my life calm and seeking peace, grace and comfort in all things.
This morning I sat outside for longer than usual while enjoying the presence of my fourteen year old Yorkie, Mollie. My mind wandered for a bit, remembering the sweet days when she would chase the squirrels that lived amongst our many trees here at my La Chaumière de Briarwood. Years ago, after exhausting herself, Mollie would gently inch her way back to me, her topaz colored fur covered lightly in a dusting of our famed Oklahoma red dirt.
She was full of life...and attitude.
Today she was happy to lay by my side as the great-grandsquirrels (no doubt the offspring of those she once tormented) played around her. I can't help but wonder if she misses the days of her youth like I do or if she is content to rest and just remember...
I'm glad I've had her to love for so long.
~*~
"I do not ask that life shall be
Forever care and sorrow free,
Nor that some distant morning I
Shall not awake to grieve and sigh.
I ask but faith to stand before
Whate'er the future has in store.
Let me be one whose courage springs
From all the countless little things
Of joy and beauty which abound
Wherever man may look around.
Let me exult in peace or strife
That I have had the gift of life."
(Edgar A. Guest)
Blessings...
Rebecca
I'm glad I've had her to love for so long.
~*~
"I do not ask that life shall be
Forever care and sorrow free,
Nor that some distant morning I
Shall not awake to grieve and sigh.
I ask but faith to stand before
Whate'er the future has in store.
Let me be one whose courage springs
From all the countless little things
Of joy and beauty which abound
Wherever man may look around.
Let me exult in peace or strife
That I have had the gift of life."
(Edgar A. Guest)
Blessings...
Rebecca
3 comments:
Sending you a big hug Girlie... xo
Aww..those are bittersweet memories, aren't they? Remembering often brings those images to our mind--and you then remember the sounds and scents of that particular moment--frozen forever in time.
Blessings to you today, Rebecca. xo Diana
ps. I love Edgar Guest. My father used to read his poetry to me.
What a sweet post Rebecca.
Sending you and Mollie big hugs (( ))
Jeannette
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